This paper investigates whether, and if yes, under what conditions, cloud-based collaboration technologies have improved company performance in the high-tech, media and telecom (TMT) industries. Two results stand out. First, while adoption of collaboration technologies in TMT is ahead of other...

Scholars have been investigating the quick emergence of digital platforms, essentially through the lens of digital native firms. If there is limited occurrence of platforms launched by incumbent firms such as Daimler (Car2Go, Moovel) or Johnson Controls (Panopix), the economics of their...

We predict the portfolio of COVID-19 vaccination drivers through a large set of Machine Learning techniques for 5 European countries. Risk perceptions matter, on top of citizens’ trust anchored in how institutions have been performing to fight the pandemic before vaccine discovery. We also...

This paper analyses the widespread difference in COVID-19 vaccination and Non-Pharmaceutical interventions (NPI) acceptance by the European population and finds that this difference can be clustered in nine archetype clusters. Calibrating a SIR model with control acceptance on COVID-19...

We estimate a reduced form of employment at the COVID time through a simple labor market equilibrium that accounts for workers possibly fearing work on-site (FOG) and for firms’ strategies such as work from home (WFH). Employment estimates on the French market demonstrate that work allocation...

Despite promising announcements on an effective vaccine, the control of the COVID-19 pandemic is critically dependent on the maximal compliance of citizens to a set of non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPI for short). We use statistical clustering to partition European citizens with regards to...

This paper examines the properties of wage and profit-sharing contracts in a model of oligopoly with capital market equilibrium. Results show that, while profit-sharing contracts dominate market wage contracts under Cournot-Nash oligopoly, profit-sharing contracts also reduce the firm cost of...

The success of companies such as Myspace and YouTube have focused attention on online companies that are quickly building their business model on participative media, leveraging a set of new social-based technologies, dubbed "Web 2.0". This article describes the quickly emerging social behavior...

How valuable, and at the same time, how respective of privacy is the Web? This paper uses conjoint techniques to assess how online users make the trade-off between use of free online applications and the desire to protect their privacy. While a large number of Web users are indeed greatly...

The Web has become a major laboratory of what consumers search, comment upon, and purchase in the real economy. This paper leverages a mash-up of online Google search and of social media (Twitter, Facebook, and others) to “nowcast” the relative product sales performance of telecoms companies...